The Sun. — London, England, 1838-02-24 00:00:00

THE COAL TRADE. The Committee sat yesterday at the usual hour, Captain T. Won in the Chair. A petition was presented from the Deptford Pier Company, signed by the Secretary, Mr. C. Barker, complaining of. the injury sustained by them inconsequence of the Colliers driving against the pier. The petition stated that every accommo dation had been offered the vessels to unload a t the Pier, at a time when the inhabitants of Deptford, Greenwich, and that neighbourhood were very scantily supplied with coals ; but although there were 720 vessels i n th e r i ver at t h e t i me, none f them would discharge their cargoes, in violation of the regu latione of the coal-factors and coal-owners. The petition strongly deprecated the combination among these parties, and Prayed that they might be allowed to tender evidence in sup port of these allegations. Mr. Thompson was then called in and again examined. In Itaswcr to questions by Mr. Pease, he stated that he could not me the precise sum he paid the seamen of his vessel per voyage. The Captain he paid 9/. per vo)age, and some per ritii•ites. If there were 7,500 vessels at present employed in the trade, that was occasioned by the system is hich prevented their taking more than a certain number of voyages per an num. Nu doubt if the system was altered some of them would be unemployed ; freights would come down, and sonic of the vessels would seek other employment, perhaps in the foreign trade. That would result from vessels making twelve voy ages a year instead of eight. If 500 ships were lost in ties course of a year, that number might be built, if required, in the cruise of a year, at the different ports and docks. The Coal Trade is a profitable one at present to the ship owners, hut it might be made more profitable without injury to the public. I don't know what the current per tentage of profit is at present to the ship-owners. If all vessels were allowed to lead in the North, and discharge in the Thames, without delay, there would not be so many vessels now employed in the trade. The ship-owners, al though they might not have such high freights, would have more money at the end of the year, and coals would be sold at a lower price. There has been an increased rate of profit for freight of late years, but that has been counter-balanced by the delay in loading and unloading. I think the trade has been profitable for the last three years. When the trade was free we bought the coals at a loss, but the public was benefitted. If the factore regulations had not interfered, the thing would have found its level, and we could have carried the coals under the free system at a fair profit. A vessel could easily make twelve voyages per annum, in an open trade. The witness was asked a great number of questions relative lto the freight at which a profit could be made. If the trade were open, there would be no jostling or confusion in discharg ing vessels in the river. By Mr. `VARLET—There is no doubt that the regulations of the coal-owners have had the effect of raising the price of coals. By Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET—The colliers generally are insured. They are insured at twelve guineas per cent. per annum. That per -tentage would not be increased if the ves sels made twelve trips instead of eight per annum. Some vessels have been nine weeks lying in the port of London wait• ing for their turn. The ordinary time is two or three weeks. If coals were lower there would be a greater demand for them, and that would be advantageous also to the ship-owner. I have heard that the shipowners generally do not concur in the regulations. Many of them complain of them. By Mr. Ilumellßßy.—Vi by then do not the ship owners com bine, if it is injurious to them ? I don't think they could do Ilt• Ship owners, who are also coal factors, approve of the gulations. By Mr. Weeeev--The actual ccst per ton to take coals om Newcastle, and deliver them in London over the ship's side, is about 6s. to 6s. E3d. including City d ies . By Mr. Hee t rnase— , The last voyage on my own account was in December. I got 20s. per ton at the ship's side for them. I don't know what I paid for them at the other end. By Lord G. SOMERSET—A person is stationed at Gravesend who takes the names of the captains and ships as they pass, and reports them to the Coal Exchange, and they are discharged in their turn. I don't know how the communication is made to the ship owners when alterations are made as to the regu lations. Captain Young, of the Eliza, examined—The coals brought in December to London from Shields cost 7s. 6d. per ton, free on board. The expenses of a voyage on a vessel of the Eliza's size is about 801. We pay five guineas per voyage to the seamen, and a pound extra to the mate and carpenter. We provide them with victuals also. We average eight or nine voyages per annum, but we could make twelve easily if the trade were free. I have never made a calculation of the ex penses on the average of each voyage. We could take the coals at 6s. 6d. all the year round ; but not with a profit. I found no difficulty in procuring cargoes in the North, when the trade was free. When the regulations were in force, I have been sometimes detained four or five weeks. The demurrage is about 4/. per day. I never was detained a week when the regulations did not exist. I have sometimes taken my turn in the river here, according to the factors' regulations. I have on this last occasion been in the river since the 6th of February, and have not yet delivered. lam waiting for my turn, and expect to commence to discharge on Monday. I have seldom been three days detained when I did not comply with the regulations. I never signed a ticket as an official coal-meter. I don't think the tickets we have got printed contain the words " official meter." By Mr. BELL—There is a Turn Act on the Tyne, and ships must wait to take their turn. I never violated the engagement I made not to sell out of turn. By Capt. A LSAGER—When I refused to sign the document in the North they refused to give me a cargo. They have often offered me a freight for a foreign port, and would be glad if I took it, but that would not answer me. If the pool is full, I wait till there is room. I have been more than a dozen times refused cargoes in the North, both on the Tyne and at Sunderland. By Mr. HUMNIERY-1 have been refused by the Holly well, the Heaton, the Beucham, and in fact all the collieries. I was last refused in December, and was then obliged to take a cargo in freight. I was detained on that Occasion five or six weeks, and it was accident then gave me a cargo. The ice did not prevent s hip s l oa di ng. I left the North about the 3d of February, and arrived in London about the 6th. I applied frequently during the five weeks I was at Newcastle, but was refused, being one of the 32 vessels then in the port of New castle which were proscribed. One of the 32 vessels has since arrived in London. She cleared out from Newcastle, I believe for France, and sold her cargo at Gravesend. By Mr. BELL —The men in the north generally get some holidays in January, but many of the collieries were at work. All I applied to refused to load me except one, who offered to supply me if I p a id I s. per ton extra. I received les. 6d. freight, which I considered a good one. I know that cap tains and crews frequenting the Tyne and the Weare are anxious to have the regulations done away with. One cap tain (of the Emma) told me that he was not able to afford his family more than les. per week. By Lord G. SOMERSET —The reason why I got such high freight as 10s. 6d. was, because there was a greater demand for coals in consequence of the frost. When a change is made in the factors' regulations, no intimation is given to the ship owners. We see the list of ships sold and unsold, and make a calculation of when our time may come. I believe a meet ing was held in the north at Christmas by the coal-owners, at which it was resolved to limit the quantity, and not to enter into any new contracts till March. My detention was entirely owing to my haying refused to sign the regulations. [The document was put in and read.] That paper is handed to me by the person in the office where I purchase the coals. One vessel arrived after me at Newcastle, and wa3 dispatched before me. A great number of vessels arrived after me, and obtained their car goes before me. I think coals can be as easily obtained inthe north in December as at any other period of the year. We could sell coals considerably less in London if there were no regula_ tons. I was obliged to keep all my crew during the five weeks I was detained in Newcastle. The los. 6d. freight was not a large freight on that account. In summer time 7s. a ton freight would pay, but it would be nearly 2s. a ton more in winter. I have not lately applied for a meter in the port of London. My customers arc satisfied with our own weighing. In this last voyage we sold on Wednesday, and expect to have a meter on Saturday or Monday. There is a want of meters in the river. If the cargo were on my owe account, I would have sold and delivered within three days after our a - rival. I could have done so even with the obstacles to the nag igation that existed during the last six weeks. If all vessels were allowed to come up and sell as fast as they pleased, they could sell much lower. By the CrTAIEMAN—Those vessels which do not comply with the regulations, experience more difficulty in obtaining meters than the others. By Mr. liUMPHERY—i applied for a meter on one occa sion, when I did not comply with the regulations, in October last, and was told I could not have one. Mr, Horne, to whom the coals were sold, procured one a day or two after wards. I think there are too few metera in the river. I tried the Tyne, the Wear, the Tees, and in other places to load me, but they all refused; I tried at Stockton, and en tered into a charter -party to obtain a cargo, but when the person applied, as soon as the narce of the vessel was men tioned, she was refused ; I then stated that I would come upon the other party for the brear:h of his charter-party, which would subject him to Pen7e . tty of 100/., and then the vessel was "fitted" to load ';eith Chiltern's Walls-end, a rery infe rior sort of coals. By Mr. Pe ....,Es.4 object to the co m bi nat i on o f coal-owners, because I. ( * slink they can ship as f as t as t h ey can work them. The S 'ecoteh coals are not in the combination, nor the Welsh, istli, they arc only fit for particular purposes. The Yorkshire Coals are not included, but we cannot get to the ports. The coals from the Humber cost too much on board ; they cannot compete with the north country coals in price. In December, 1836, Hollywell Main coals were Bs. 3d. Since then they have been 95., and a shilling for quay dues, and to put on board. I think the coal owners ought to be content with a moderate rate of profit. I saw it stated that I said they could sell at les. per ton lower, but I contradicted the statement, because it was incorrect. I complain that I cannot get coals to purchase, in consequence of these regulations. I do not ' know of any detention, in either my own case or others, dur ing the time the trade was open. The pitmen generally have a fortnight's holidays in December. There were at that time, I believe, six or seven hundred ships in the Thames. The eel-owners in the north are obliged to waste a great deal o f the best t i me to repair the engines, &e., in the collieries. I know nothing about these matters. The Committee then adjourned. Her Majesty's Mail steam packet, from Pembroke to Waterford, which we supposed to have been lost in the snow storm of Thu rs d ay, has reached Youghall, her engines being much damaged. She i s lik e l y to rema i n f or some t i me at Youghall to repair. LONDON: SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1838. In the few cursory remarks made last night by Lord MELBOURNE on the subject of the Ballot, we can plainly trace the moral influence of the late discussion in the House of Commons. His Lordship, as a matter of course, ex pressed hiasself hostile to the great experiment, but his opposition bore no trace of decision or energy ; but, on the contrary, was of a subdued, irresolute—we might almost add—desponding character. He did not deny that the question was fast gaining ground, but " hoped that the measure would not be pressed forward by the country, but that the people would weigh well the subject, and take a comprehensive view of it." How different is this language from that held, some weeks since, by Lord JOHN RUSSELL 1 But then the discussion on the Ballot had not taken place ; the numerical force of its supporters in the House of Commons had not been ascertained—possi bly not even suspected—whereas, it is now clearly demonstrated that the experiment cannot be with held much longer ; end that Ministers, whether they like or dislike it, must make up their minds, at no distant period, to concede the point. We fancy we can trace an anticipation of this sort in Lord MELBOURNE'S speech last night, and hail the omen accordingly, as one of brightest import. We should be guilty of gross flattery to his Lordship, were we to observe, that in the few quiet re marks he urged against the Ballot, there was anything like sound argument. He hazarded but one observation which was intended to be logical ; and this one was triumphantly refuted by Lord BROUGHAM, who added, in speaking of the necessity of the Ballot, that he " knew of a case which happened in a great city not far from that place, where a tradesman received not fewer than sixteen letters, all insisting on his voting one wa y ; an d i n ti ma ti ng , if h e did not, that the writer of each letter would with draw his custom from him. The poor man perceived ruin staring him in the face, if he dared to exercise his political rights." This is by no means an aggravated case of op pression, for hundreds of a far more flagrant character oc curred daily during the last elections—more especially in the south-west of England, where voters were brought up to the poll in droves, like cattle to Smithfield, and compelled to give their suffrages just as their Tory drivers dictated. Surely these are grievances that call trumpet tongued for redress ; and when, in addition to this, it is borne in mind how officiously and how scandalously the Tory parsons persist in tampering with the consciences of their flocks ; how, regardless of their vocation as ministers of peace and good-will to man, they thrust themselves pro minently forward as mere electioneering agents, stirrers-up of strife and heart-burnings ;—when all these things, we say, are taken into consideration, it will at once be evident that justice, morality, and com mon sense are alike interested in—alike call for, the pro tection of the Ballot. We suppose it was an anticipation of the speedy success of the measure, that induced the Duke of WELLINGTON to exclaim last night, with ill-disguised bitterness of feeling, that "we had gone back halfa century." Were it worth while to refute this exceeding foolish observe tion, we could convince the Prince of WATERLOO, that so far from " going back," we have advanced in our political con dition far beyond anything he could ever have dreamed of. We have no Tory Boroughmongers now to coerce our House of Commons ; no Tory jobs remarkable only for their impudence and iniquity ; no influence behind the throne, greater than the throne itself ; all this is past for ever : a circumstance which we can readily imagine that the Noble Duke regards as indicative of a return to the most barbarous politic periods in English history. As we yesterday anticipated, the personal question of which Lord MAIDSTONE gave notice caused a great ex citement in the House of Commons, and will certainly give us, unless it be dropped, frequent opportunities of referring to it. Mr. O'CONNELL, it %Nil' be seen by the debate, answered Lord MAIDSTONE'S question in the affir mative, and acknowledged that ho had used every word contained in the report. He was going on, as we expected he would, to justify his assertions, when the SPEAKER in terposed, and the debate was cut short by Lord MAIDSTONE giving notice that on Monday he would call the attention of the House to the conduct of Mr. O'CONNELL. ' Thereupon Lord JOHN RUSSELL, with much spirit, and greatly to the delight of all his supporters, gave notice, that if Lord MAIDSTONE'S motion were entertained, be would bring under the consideration of the House the charge of perjury made by the Bishop of EXETER against certain Members of the House. This naturally excited and will demand continued public attention. It is the be ginning of a war of heated personalities, of which we defy any man to forcsoe the issue. An imputation has been cast on Lord JOHN RUSSELL for making his notice contingent, but this is undeserved. Lord JOHN RUSSELL no doubt thinks, as all reason able men think, that the House of Commons is a most improper body to enter into those personal discussions whenever they can be avoided ; and on that principle, a!though he thinks, as he has before stated, that the conduct of the Bishop o f E XETER i s most objectionable, he would not submit any motion on the subject to the House of Commons. But if the House break through the good rule of abstaining from such discussions at the instance of Lord MAIDSTONE, and establish a precedent on which Lord JOHN will be bound to act—if the House entertain Lord MAIDSTONE'S mo tion—then Lord JOHN RUSSELL, feeling himself under an obligation to defend his own friends and party, will bring the conduct of the Bishop of EXETER under the notice of the House of Commons. In that we see only a judicious warning to Lord MAIDSTONE, and his ghostly and prelatical advisers, against the certain consequences of their injudicious proceedings. They are embarking on a sea of contention, where disaster and wreck must await them. The Morning Chronicle publishes the following passage of the Bishop's triennial visitation in 1836, as containing the accusation w hi c h L or d J OHN R USSELL will probably bring under the notice of the House : " I will first remark on the Bill entitled An Act for the Regulation of Ecclesiastical Revenues, and the promotion of Religious and Moral Instruction in Ireland,'—in plain Eng lish, for seizing on the revenues of the Protestant Church in Ireland, and applying them to some undefined purpose of teaching morality without religion, and religion without a creed, a a I cannot but congratulate you • » * that those moderate funds (for such they have been proved to be) which the piety and wisdom of former ages have provided for the maintenance and extension of a pure faith throughout Ireland have not become the prey of a perfidioca faction, which could not have acquired the powers of mischief which unhappily they possess and exercise, but by entering into engagements and binding themselves by pledges which Englishmen and Protestants would deem it impossible for any who call themselves Christians to dare to violate. In the discussion of the measure in Parliament I felt it my duty to rest my resistance to it on this point —to denounce as trea chery, aggravated by perjury, such an exercise of rights, Sc. qttired under an oath not to weaken or disturb the Pro - ttstant religion.' !' That journal takes the opportunity of reminding its readers that the higher classes of the ecclesiastics have bandied accusations of perjury against each other, as well as against the Catholic Members of Parliament ; and quotes appropriately what the Rev. SYDNEY Smint has published, of which the following is the gist : " The Archbishop of Canterbury, at his consecration, takes a solemn oath that he will maintain the rights and liberties of the Church of Canterbury ; as Chairman, however, of the new Commission, be seizes the patronage of that Church, takes two-thirds of its revenues. and abolishes two-thirds of its mem bers. This little apparent inconsistency is not confined to the Archbishop of Canterbury, but is shared equally by all the Bishop Commissioners, who have all (unless I am grievously I mistaken) taken :similar oaths for the preservation of their re spective chapters." So that accusations of perjury «ill not be wanted on all bends should the matter be once stirred up. If we arc not mistaken, the one example Mr. OVONNEI.I, has quoted might be matched by many others. At least, were we to compare rigidly sshat the Members of both Houses of Parliament swear to perform with what they actu ally do, we s h ou ld fi n d many revolting discrepancies. Prayers are publicly put up every Sunday that they may do justice, love mercy, and walk in the ways of righteousness ; and they tax the bread of the poor for their own enrichment, and inflict pains, penalties, and humiliations on men of a different faith, for their own aggrandisement. There is a %ulgar proverb—a great favourite with SaNctio PaszA—which the rash Lord MAIDSTONE would on this subject: do well to remember. Whatever may be the private virtues of English gentlemen, their public, political, and legislative virtues will be the more honoured the less they are discussed. In the in terest of his class Lord MAIDSTONE should be silent. The public naturally ask what is the cause that Colonel EVANS is so slow in bringing forward his promised motion relative to the treatment of the British Legion, and to the strong remarks made in Parliament during his absence on the manner in which he conducted his military ope_ rations in the North of Spain. He is now returned e i g ht months. He arrived before the last Parliament was dissolved, and he has now been three months in the present Parliament, with ample opportunities to reply to the charges made against himself, and to the still more serious charges made against the Spanish Government ; yet we have had only the promise of a motion, with a few occasional assertions praising, rather than blaming, the Spanish autho rities. There is but one opinion in this country on the subject ; and if that opinion be wrong, Colonel EVANS fails in his duty to the Government under which ho served for three years, by delaying for a week to place the real facts before the public, and remove the bad feeling which the people of England entertain towards Spain, on account of the treatment which the Gallant Officer and his unfortunate men received at the hands of the Government, the Generals, and the soldiers and popu lation generally in that country. A strong belief prevails, that atter the Legion took up its quarters at Vittoria many hundreds were carried off by diseases, induced by cold and want ; that in an attempt to penetrate into the provinces, the Legion was nearly sacrificed by the hitherto inexplicable conduct of the Spanish General ; that in the last unfortunate engagement the attack failsd from a similar cause ; and that the men, after having fought bravely, and endured many privations, have from some cause or another been reduced to about one-fifth of their original number, and that even that miserable remnant is forced to remain in that inhospitable country, on ac count of the non-fulfilment of solemn engagements en tered into with Spain. Some of these charges were reiterated by Sir HENRY HARDINGE last night, and from that Gallant Officer's statement it appears that the unfortunate men are now kept at St. Sebastian in a state of great destitution and misery ; and that two hundred of them had been put on board a British vessel by Lord Jour; HAY, to preserve them from starvation. Lord PaLstu a- STON rather admitted than denied the statement. Colonel EVANS asserted that there was no such thing as starvation existing among them, and, amidst great noise, added thatthey were not in a worse condition than the troops were under his command, and amidst still greater noise asserted that they were not in so bad a state as the British army was at different periods during the Peninsular war. Such asser tions will neither exonerate the Spanish Government nor relieve the public mind ; and, till Colonel Evarts brings some proof to the contrary, we will believe the official de claration of General O'CoNNELL, that " the conduct of the Spanish authorities towards the Legion has been in famous." Colonel EVANS cannot have any object in screen ing the Spanish Government ; there arc no reasons for de ferring the requisite explanation ; and if it is not made speedily, Sir HENRT HARVINGZ could not perform a more acceptable service than by a motion to bring the points at issue under the immediate and deliberate consideration of the House. Lord NUGENT has judiciously withdrawn his pretensions to represent Marylebone, and has earned the future sup. port of Reformers. There now only remain in the field Colonel THOMPSON, backed exclusively, it is said, by Mr. MURPHY—and Mr. Ewart, who is promised the suffrages of the great body of the electors. Which of these two Reform Candidates ought to retire seems to us no longer in the least doubtful. It was distinctly declared yesterday at the public meeting, held at the Yorkshire Sting°, that Colonel THOMPSON had no chance whatever of success, and for him to continue in the field can have no other effect than to promote the return of Lord TEIGN MOUTH. Colonel THOMPSON is, we arc persuaded , too thorough and too consistent a Reformer to injure the cause of Reform, and he will, no doubt, imitate Lord NUGENT'S example, and retire from the contest. His own personal and political friend, Major REvaL, declared last night that he sacrificed his own feelings on the altar of patriotism, and gave his support to Mr. Ewaa-r. Colonel TuomesoN cannot be less magnanimous than his own friends, and persist in a hopeless contest, after they have deserted him. If Mr. EWART wore a half-and-hall Re former—if ho were not a staunch, unflinching, uncompro mizing enemy to abuses of every kind, and as thorough going a friend to the Ballot and extension of the Suffrage as Colonel TnostrsoN himself—we should advise the Colonel to test the constituency at all hazards. But Mr. EWART being as good a Reformer as the Colonel, and more popu lar with the Electors, there is no good reason whatever for the Colonel continuing in the field. We have a vi v id recollection of Colonel THOMPSON'S many valuable ser vices to the cause of Reform. His letters to his consti tuents were a most instructive commentary on the proceed ings of the Honourable House, the non-continuance of which we—in common, we believe, with the Reformers at large—deeply regret. We scarcely know one gentleman who:e services we miss more, and whom we more desire to see restored to that As-emblY ; and his contiriLd exclusion from it, Which would be the re sult probably of his offending the Reformers, by causing the return of a Tory for Marylebone, is one of the strongest reasons we have for pressing on him the duty of retiring. Many months cannot pass over before there will be a vacancy in some borough, where his frank character and eminent sera i'es are more highly appreciated than they appear to be in Marylebone, and where his return will be ensured by his present retirement. He has too much good sense we are sure to suffer hire:TV to be made the tool of any disappointed individual, or little party, if such there be in the borough ; and now, finding the majority not for him, he will, with that only mad e a b d i y s g t r h a e c e 0 , r g a a t n o : e c ef thewit h T d roarwi Tories grace, whi c h w ill at present ma k e res i gnat i on an ho nour n to himself, w hil e , hereafter, eith e r it or defeat will be A nt aT att m ac u k st s heMrv.irEuwle convince the Colonel that he it the person whose success they most apprehend, and Colonel THOMPSON will only add to his present numerous claims on the Reformers by generously, but patriotically, lending all his influence and power to secure Mr. EWART'S return. We refer to a communication in another place for an explanation of the supposed slight, which makes Colonel THomPsoN say in his advertisement that laid on a necessity is on him to go to the poll. ' The Middlesex Magistrates held a Court yesterday, to receive the Report of a Select Committee, appointed by their sapient Worships, to consider the expediency of re commending to the Government some newfangled con coction, in the shape of a Spirit-and-Beer-selling-restriction, and Sabbath-protection Bill. Whenever the dignitaries of the Middlesex Bench assume the functions of a Council of State, we take a peculiar pleasure in making ourselves ac quainted with their proceedings. The reports of their Com mittees are as amusing in their way as any prose farces in the language, and were they not so long, would furnish capital entertainments at the minor theatres. As for the report presented yesterday, it is by no means an exception to the rest ; and until we can learn the names of the members of the Committee we shall set them down as gentlemen " of infinite humour." The report,consists of twelve resolutions, upon which it is proposed that the Ministerial Bill shall be framed. The first Resolution sufficiently manifests the presence of the presiding genius of the Worshipful orac l es o f Cl'erkenwell That the rice of drunkenness, and its worst consequences, are greatly increased by keeping houses open for th e sale of intoxicating liquors in the night time, and on Sunday morn ings, and also by supplying strong liquors in such houses to persons when in a state of intoxication." To make intoxicated persons already intoxicated greatly increases the vice of drunkenness and its worst conse quences ! There is a magisterial discovery for you! But who is to prevent this ? How is the information requisite for the conviction of the offender to be obtained ? What remedy do the Committee propose ? Here it is " That Victuallers supplying strong beer, wine, and s:piri tuous liquors to persons while in a state of intoxication, or who have drunk so much liquor on their premises as to be likely to be intoxicated, be not entitled to payment for liquor so furnished ; and thst if they have procured payment for it, they may be compelled to refund the same on a summary process." _ _ _ The substance of these resolutions is, that it be declared illegal for publicans to do more than make their customers drunk. Their Worships have not defined what is drun kenness, and we arc sorry for it, for we are acquainted with no other equally grave body so well qualified to give such a definition. But suppose the law violated, who shall give evidence against the landlord ? Not the drunkard surely, while waiters can so imperfectly distinguish when hilarity gives place to intoxication. The above resolutions are simply absurd. The following one, which embodies the essence of the Report, would, if adopted by the Legislature, interfere most cruelly and wantonly with the necessary com forts of the people : " Your Committee, therefore submit that it be respectfully recommended to her Majesty's Government to bring in a Bill to limit the hours for the retail sale of strong beer, wine, and spirituous liquors, to between six o'clock in the morning and eleven o'clock at night, and that such houses be cleared of their guests before half-past eleven o'clock at night, but on Sunday mornings that such be not opened before one o'clock, P. M . " The Middlesex sages, upon whose worshipful shoulders the mantle of Sir ANDREW AGNEW has descended, forget that their swadd:ing-clothes maxim of " early to bed and early to rise" is inapplicable to the highly artificial state of metropolitan society. There are thousands of persons, quite as exemplary in their lives as the members of the Committee who prepared this report, whose labours, mental and bodily, only commence a little before eleven o'clock at night, and for whose comforts as much care should be taken, as for those of their sleeping fellow-subjects. Among this class we may refer, by way of illustration, to the Editors, Reporters, Clerks, Compositors, Printers, and Messengers essential to the conducting of a daily Morning Journal—a body of men whose services are quite as essen- Cal to the morality of their countrymen, as those of the worshipful fraternity who volunteer advice to the Legisla ture, from the classical regions of Clerkenwell. With out imputing any motives to the Middlesex Magis trates unbecoming the judicial bench, we can conceive nothing more preposterous than their systematic attempts to add to the gloom of the Sabbath, and their petty annoy ances of the working classes, by constantly interfering with public-houses and lseer-shops. If they want objects where with to exercise their holy zeal, why do they not close the Hells, the Gambling Clubs, and other haunts of Aristo cratic vice and intemperance ? Why do they not compel the rich to set an example to the poor, instead of vexa tiously disturbing the few moments of relaxation which the latter can enjoy, after a day of painful, and often ill-requited toil ? For ourselves we are of opinion that the working classes would be one hundred times more moral than they are were there not half so many absurd laws for the regulation of their conduct. Twelve, or even one o'clock, P.M., is early enough to close a public-house in Lon don, and upon the opening of coffee-shops there ought to be no restriction whatever. Coffee-shops are the political schools of the metropolitan working-classes, and more has been learned in them within the last seven years than in all the academies in the kingdom. We have received a letter from a Correspondent at Bingham, in Nottinghamshire, detailing the proceedings at a late Vestry Meeting in that town. 'We are extremely glad to learn that the Church-rate agitation has reached Bingham, and that a formidable opposition to that dis graceful impost has been organised there. We should have been glad, if our space would have allowed us, to insert our Correspondent's interesting communication at full length ; but in the presentistate of our columns that is i m possible. We can only make room for the queries to w hich he is anxious to obta►n answers. He asks " Ist. Is the rate retrospective, when the church-wardens were ap pointed in March, 1837, and do not demand a rate till February, 1838. 2d. Is it illegal to more that a meeting be postponed for six months? 3d, Can a person whose name has not yet been placed on the Kate-hook demand to hare it put there before the polling and then vote ? 4th. Has the Chairman a right to restrict the polling to one day ?" We think we may safely inform our Correspondent that every rate is retrospective which is levied to defray ex pences already incurred. The 2d, 3rd, and 4th questions must be answered in the negative. If we are wrong, pothaps some of our legal friends will have the goodness to set us right. The Paris Journals of Thursday are as barren of interest ing news as those of Wednesday and Tuesday. Advices from Madrid of the 14th state, state that MENDIZAISAL has taken his seat in the Chamber of Deputies as one of the Representatives of the Capital, GOMEZ PARDO haying re signed in his favour. No other change had taken place. Annexed are the only other announcements of any moment in these Journals : " The learned world has just sustained an immense lose : the Most Illustrious of the Orientalists of Europe, Baron Silvestre de Sacy, died yesterday. On Monday morning he was still in perfect health. After having delivered his lecture in the College de France, he went to the sitting of the Chamber of Peers, and even took part in the debate. Leaving the Luxembourg after the sitting he was seized with an apoplectic fit, as he was stepping into a hackney-coach to re turn home. He did not afterwards recover the use of his faculties. M. Silvestre de Sacy was eighty years of age. " Lieutenant-General Castellano arrived in Paris yesterday. A letter from Toulon of the 17th says that the grounds of the strike of the shipwrights at that port was, that on receiving their pay on the 15th they found that their daily pay was re duced to 1 franc 46 centimes, whereas they expected 2 francs 50 centimes and 3 francs. This enormous reduction exaspe rated them, and they refused to go to work. No disturbance has taken place, but groups collect every morning at the gites of the Arsenal and of the Monrellon to prevent any workiaen from going in. The 500 or 600 who have continued there go to their homes or into the country. The military authorities cause troops to patrol in the city. It is to be hoped that the Minister of Marine will do something for these poor people.— Commerce. FRENCH FUNDS -Pettis, Fus. 22. Five per Cents., 109 f. 85c, 90e. 75e. I hree per Cents., 79f. 60c. Psc. 75e. 80c. Bank Actions, 2,660 f. 2,6'J5f. Rente de Naples, 99f. 20c. 15c. Roman Five per Cents., 101% 102. Spanish Actives, 12%34. Spanish Passives, 4N. Belgian Loan, 1045 v. Belgian Bank, 1,52'f. Haytiati Loan, 390 f. EICHANGR ON LONDON!. Oar month, paper, 25f. 47%c.; money, 25f. 47 1 ,ic Three months, paper, 251. 35e. ; money, 25f. 32 1 ,4 e. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. 1001. 85c. Three per Cents., 79f. 75c. Bank Actions, 2,(355f. Romans, 102. Belgian Bank, 1,220 f. Belgian Loan, 104!. Haytlan Loan, 390 f. Spanish Actives, 1934. Spanish Passives, 46. THE SPOTISWOODF. GANG, Which has enticed so much d ear ly b e l ove d money out of the pockets of the parsons, turns out to be an arrant job to promote the interest of some attornies. The Herald complains of it as making a " mock resistance," and " a real disbursement of the large subscription collected from the Conservatives, amongst its own connections." It is said to have done " the Ministry some service," and the Herald adds, that the only question now seems to be, whether the gang should not withdraw, and be obliged reluctantly to restore what yet remains un squandered of the pelf which was coaxed-out of the pockets of political parsons. The spirit of jobbing is so strong in the Tories, that not being able to plunder the public, they prey on each other. The Standard, too, is dissatisfied with the manner is which its favourite subscription has been appropriated, and it Inds out that the bar is " now an e masculate profession or rather a peddling trade," because the banisters have taken fees to carry on the " farce of a trial." Such a failure is the net,aral consequence of the IT a s i c o r sutp othe us liberties bigotry and u of Ireland nbhe ro was t concocted.rlines in which Nvc h theo:,e that plot a tt g 7j3 will be a good lesson to the simple-minded, well-meaning their yogeentlind that emenla henceforth diesandel they willergyenw hhoe en their havesubscrihed innys iguard against C o nservative jobbers, T H E NEW WORK', EDITED BY Boz.—We are requested to state that the new work entitled " Memoirs of Grimaldi, the Clown," edited by: Charles Dickens, Esq., (Boz), author of the " Pickwick Papers," " Oliver Twist," & c ., and embellished with numerous characteristic illustra tions, by George Cruickshanks (in 2 vols. post 6vo), is pub lished this day by Mr. Bentley, New Burlington-street, and may now bo obtained of all the booksellers. Agents :—For Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; for Ire land, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. The General Steam Navigation Company's packet, the Menai, from Scheveningen, arrived off Blackwall last flight, with the Rotterdam Mail, and Journals to the 20th instant. They contain, however, no news of importance, and very little of any kind, exclusive of rumours about the dispute between Prussia and Rome. J. GIBSON, Esc.—lt is with regret that we record the death of Jabez Gibson, Esq., banker, of Saffron Walden, which melancholy event occurred rather suddenly about six o'clock this morning. DUBLIN.—Our Correspondent in this city states that the election for Tipperary commences this day ( Saturday), and that, if a contest take place, Mr. Shiel is sure of being returned free of expense. To-day is the birth-day of his Royal Highness Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, who completes his sixty-fourth year, having been born in 1774. Lady Edmund Antrobus gave a soiree musicale last even i n g on the Terrace, Piccadilly, which was attended by one hundred and fifty fashionables. During 1837 the arrivals of vessels in the port of Genoa were 1,466. Of these, 1,103 were Sardinian, 101 Neapolitan, 95 French, 70 English, 15 Spanish, 14 Ameri can, 12 Tuscan, 11 Austrian, 10 Dutch, and the rest in smaller numbers from other countries. MARYLEBONE ELECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. COMMITTEE ROOM, ALBANY-STREET, 24th DEC. 1638. Sta,—l hare this moment seen an advertisement in your paper of last evening, which I am compelled, in justice to the public and the Electors of Marylebone in consequence to give the fair statement of facts. It is true, an advertisement ap peared. inviting Colonel Thompson to the meeting at the Yorkshire Stingo, and that gentleman was also invited by letter—it was certainly not known at the Central Committee Room that such invitation had been sent—it originated thus :—a meeting of Mr. Ewart's supporters was held on Thursday evening, to form a district Committee, &c., to which meeting some of Colonel Thompson's friends came, and suggested the course which was adopted, and a resolution was carried to that effect, with the entire concurrence of Mr. Evrart's friends then assembled. Colonel Thompson must mistake in saving it was not a public meeting, as it was known to be so by Colonel Thompson's friends. Colonel Thompson says that a necessity is thus laid upon him to go to the poll, which he cannot evade if he would. I have reason to believe that fact, and that Colonel Thompson is not altogether a free man in this business. I spoke to his friend Mr. T. Murphy yesterday, and urged him to stay; but Mr. Murphy disdained to take any notice of an opportunity for disabusing the minds of the electors, and abruptly left the meeting, thus confirming, to my judgment, what he had ad mitted nearly two months since, in my presence—That he had a man in his eye for the Representation of the Borough, in the event of an election occurring, by the disqualification of Sir S. Whalley; and rather than come to any understanding on the subject, to prevent a division of the liberal interest, if ho saw there was no chance of his man succeeding, he would take that course which would ensure the return of Lord Tcignmouth, rather than any other liberal candidate, not brought forward by him, should represent the Borough. I beg distinctly to be. understood as not reflecting on the conduct of Colonel Thompson individually, as I would support him as soon- as any man I know, under other circumstances than the present ; but the contest is now one of principle, and the majority of Liberal electors are decidedly in favour of Mr. Ewart. The meeting at the York shire Stingo, with the exception of two, I believe, was unani mous; as also were all the other meetings yesterday. I now leave you and the public to judge who it is that divides the Reform interest, to the danger of bringing in a Tory. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, H. S. LOVE. P. S. I omitted in haste to mention a material fact, which I can prove, that the invitation to Colonel Thompson was mooted at a meeting of that gentleman's friends, at which Mr. Murphy was Chairman, and they came to our meeting and proposed it. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) THE SUN, LOMA, BOROUGH OF MARYLEtiONE, AMEETING of the ELECTORS will Ile held on MONDAY, at o'clock, at the MECHA NICS' INSTITUTION, Circus-street, New-road, to take mea sures to secure the return of Colonel Thompson. DANIEL WHITTLE HARVEY, Esq., M.P., in the Chair. • To THE ELECTORS OF MARYLEBONE. GENTLEMEN, CIRCUMSTANCES occur which lay me under the necessity of troubling you with remark. Intimations have been given in printed papers, that Mr. Ewart was the first Reformer that offered for Marylebone. In addition to the public fact of my being among the proposed at the last election, Mr. Ewart called upon me about the beginning of the year, and asked me if I intended to stand. I answered " Yes, I was in the field since last election, and was pledged to my friends." He re plied, " Oh, then, perhaps, I ought not to have spoken to you." You have been informed of the way in which, after being invited by name in advertisement in the newspapers, to attend a public meeting in the New-road, for the professed purpose of determining which of the Reform Candidates should give way, I was turned out of the Committee-room in the presence of Mr. Ewart and Mr. Home, on the assurance that it was not a public meeting, and that I was not invited, I think Mr. Hume should contradict the report in the Morning Chronicle, that as soon as I and my friends were gone, he took the Chair, and said, " Ile hoped all parties would be fairly and impar- tially heard." 'i he proposal for any arrangement as to which candidate should withdraw has been always resisted by Mr. Ewart's friends, except under circumstances to which no men, with an ordinary sense of sets-respeet, could be expected to accede. If I had presented myself in Liverpool, in Middlesex, or in Kil kenny, under all the circumstances that have occurred in Maryle hone, 1 can anticipate the advice that would be poured upon me from all quarters, and the breathless haste with which I should rush to put it into execution. Gentlemen, the Meeting in the New-Road leaves us no option except between resistance and being parties to our own wrong. I have pledged myself to go to the poll under all circumstances, in a way which no man can retract. The money for the expenses is in the hands of a well-known friend; and if I die before the election, I bequeath it to him with a request that he will use it to go to the poll in my stead. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. 13, Hanover-terrace, Regent's-park, 24th Feb. 1838. TO CORRESPONDENTS. To publish the report of the Marylcbone Reformers' Registration Society just now would not be of any particular service, and it is therefore left in our office for our Correspondent. I.P o . r pi„ itipu . ...r 2 11 1 r 634 ' Z i rf )2 a - nrt+ WITH WHICII " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. N, SATURDAY, FFAIRUARY 24, 1-38. YOUGHAL. The Committee met this day at one o'clock, dencral Lygon In the Chair. Mr. THRBSIGEII (In the absence of Mr. Pollock) opened the case for the petition. The numbers, at the close of the poll, at the late election for Youghal, were—for Mr. Howard, the sitting Member, 158, and for Mr. Nichol, the petitioner, 130 ; giving the former a majority of only eight. That majority he (Mr. T.) should have no difficulty in reducing, so as to turn the scale in favour of Mr. Nichol, for he could show that at least nine of Mr. Howard's voters were disqualified, by change of residence since th. registration. He had also a clear case of bribery, into which he would not go, if he suc ceeded in seating his client without that. He understood that it would be attempted on the other side to strike off some of Mr. Ni. ehol's votes, on the ground that certain freemen who voted were dis franchised by the Reform Act. It would be necessary for his Learned Friend for that purpose to open the registry, which he (Mr. Thessiger) would not oppose. The poll books were then put In and proved, Mr. TIMSSIGER observ ing that this was the only Irish case lie ever knew in which the poll. books were not impugned. vv . - Mr. HARRISON applied for a peremptory order upon the Mayor of Youghal to produce the charter of the Corporation. Mr. THESSIGER objected that the charter was not included in the notice served upon the Mayor in the first instance, and therefore the order could not now be granted. BELFAST. The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock, when the Chair. man announced that they had decided that the ♦ote of Doble, which was under consideration when they adjourned yesterday, should be struck off the poll. An arrangement was entered into between Counsel on both sides to admit that Mrs. Harriet Joy, sister of the Chief Baron of the Irish Court of Exchequer, who was named an annuitant for SOO& a year in a deed affecting the property of Mr. Dunbar was still alive. The object of the arrangement was, to enable Mr. Joy of the Irish bar, who was in attendance to prove the fact, to leave town to attend his circuit. The vote of Hugh Dunning, which belonged to the same class of ob jections, was then struck off. - In the case of Edward Cochran, three witnesses swore that th• pre mises were worth more than 91. William Flood, one of the police valuators of Belfast, was then called by Mr. Whiteside, and stated that the highest ♦alue of the pre mises was 91. On witness's cross-examination, by Mr. Andrews, he admitted that if the police-books were given in evidence in any Court, and the Court would rely on them, it would deceive them, without an explanationbeing given as to the principle on which the valuation was made, which was this. They generally rated the houses at a pound or two less than their real value, and moreover they could not tell the real value as they valued the premises from the outside appearance. In reply to a Member of the Committee the witness stated that he had been in town since Tuesday last, and had been in attendance on the Committee, but had not been examined. The Committee appeared somewhat surprised that the witness should not have been produced before, to give the same explanations with re gard to the police books which had bees now obtained on his cross. examination by Mr. Andrews. His testimony would have been most important to the sitting Member, as the police books have been made in almost every instance the test of value with the Committee. The vote was struck off. IPSWICH. The Liberals objecte 1 to the vote of C. L. Robinson, on the ground of non.occupation. The evidence and arguments of counsel lasted till past one. The Committee ordered the room to be cleared, and on the readmis sion of the public, decided the vote to he bad. Messrs. Kelly and Tutfnell are now once more on an equality. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY. The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's-inn Hall today. THE BERMIAMPSTED SCHOOL. The SOLICITOR-GBP(1111AL stated that, in this case, in which an ap plication had been made for the order of the Court to substitute certain parties for the present relators to the information that had been filed for the regulation of the Berkhampstead School, the present relators had agreed to both suggestions, that they should he discharged, and to allow the persons who had been proposed to be substituted. They were also willing to concur in any arrangement that would be productive of bene fit to the charity. IILICIAL r. BERNAL. Hie LORDelltr postponed giving judgment in this case until Wed. needay next. ELLIS P. CIOILDON. Mr. JACo■ replied in this case, which was part heard yesterday, and The LORD CH&NCELLQY said he would give judgment on Monday next. CANTRILL F. TRH. UUARDIAXS OF TILE WINDSOR UNION. This case came before the Court upon motion on behalf of the Guardi ans of the Windsor Union, for the discharge of an injunction restrain ing them from pulling down certain cottages at Old Windsor, for the purpose of erecting a Union Workhouse on the site. The SoLicrroa-GENER•L, who appeared on behalf of the Guardians, was addressing the Court when we left. ROLLS' COURT-(THIS DAY.) This being seal day, his Lordship the Master of the Rolls took mo tions, and those which occupied the Court the greater part of the morning were motions •f course. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY DEAL, Fan. 23.—Wind S. E, moderate and foggy.—Arrived and re mains in the Downs, the Augustus, Carr, from the Mauritius. PoeTsmourm, Fee. 23.—Wind E.S.E., hazy, with rain.—Arrived the Commerce, Rusterwick, from London. Sailed the Galway, Quin lin, for Cardiff; and Frances and Charlotte, Duck, for Waterford. DOTER, FEB. 23.—Arrived off port, the Air, Frost, St. Michael's. DUBLIN, Fen. 22.—Arrived the City of Limerick steamer, London. BELFAST, FEB. 21.—Arrived the Caledonia, Graham, St. John's. PLYMOUTH, Fen. 22--Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Atalanta, Clark, from Terceira; Nlerlassa, from Bilboa, with loss of mainmast, booms, sails, &c.; Bellisaire, Quartien, from Martinique to Havre, with loss of sails; and Charles fleartley, Hopper, from the Mauritius. The Sara, Harsholm, from Rio Janeiro to Cowes, has put in here with cargo da. malted, and with lose of sails, stauncheons, &c. Spoken with—The British Merchant, of and from Liverpool, to New Orleans, the 22d January, in lat. 31 N., long. 45 W., by the Charles Heartley. Fat.MoUTit, FED. 22.—Wind E. E.S.E., strong breezes, and squally. —Arrived the Royal William (steamer), from Dublin. Sailed the Ramona (steamer), from Course. HAT/ILIN letdown, FEB. 20.—Seventeen bales of cotton wool were picked up along the east shore of this island on the 18th and 19th in't., and have been taken possession of by the proprietor of the island. 'mesa, Fen. 22.—The Dorothy, Storm, of Whitby, ran on the North Gaze this morning, and was beaten on it for about three hours, but has been got off, and into the River., CORK, Fru. 19.—Part of a boat marked Fanny Vouse, of Hull, Richard Humphrey, has been picked up at the entrance of the harbour. Also part of another mai ked Friends. The Victoria, Rutland, arrived from Liverpool with loss of boat, &c., bound to St. John's, New Brunswick. DOTER, FEB: 23.—The Aurora, from London to Newfoundland, which was on shore in Dungeness Bay, has been got on; after dis charging part of the cargo, and will come into this harbour. ANIS - FM/AU, Fee. 10.—The Port of T exel is full of floating ice which makes it dangerous to get into the Nieuve BRIELLE, Fan. 20.—Since yesterday afternoon there has been a thaw, w hich continues. v ~„o rarid4l Fan. 13.—The frost cont i nues, and no appearance of a change. I,ITIIIIPOOI, Fan. 23.—Wind S.E., light, with a fall of snow.—Ar. rived the Cheerful, from Mauritius ; Colchis, from Mobile ; Ellen German, from Palermo ; and John Souchay, from Zante. Sailed the Premier, for Zante ; Urchin, for Constantinople ; Lord John Russell, for Halifax ; Lynx, for Lisbon ; Superb, for Pernambuco and Talbot, for Savanna. Sclux.—Arrived off port—the Reliance, Warner, from Calcutta. The Cordelia, Dunble, from Newcastle to Cadiz, lost foremast, Ac., on the lath inst., off Scilly, sod was abandoned by the crew. The Douglas, Parker, from Limerick to London, is on shorn near Belmullet—crew saved. The Nautilus, of Ipswich, has been carried into Dover a derelict. The Edmund, of St. Ire's, front death to Mount's Bay, foundered at sea on the 16th inst. ; craw saved. The Swan, Errington, bound to Jamaica, has put back to Cork after throwing part of ker cargo overboard. The Times of this morning, with its usual disregard of truth, represents the Speaker as interrupting Lord Maid stone last night, when in fact he interrupted Mr. O'Connell ; and it founds on that misrepresentation a gross insinuation of partiality against the Speaker. Such a trifling and con temptible matter is only worthy of notice, as a specimen of that continued misrepresentation by which the Times labours in vain to bolster up the many bad causes of which it is now the habitual (Wender. THE FUNDS.- 7 -(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELTE O'CLOCK. At half-past ten o'clock no letters were delivered from the Post-otlice.. To the present hour we have no tidings of any of the three packets from New York. The Consol Market Is In a very Inactive state. Consols opened Ms morning at the closing prices of yesterday, 924 for the Account, and 92,1 I for next Account; Exchequer Bills, 54 56 ; India Bonds, 55 57 ; Bank Stock, 20511, ; India Stock, 26211. The Foreign Market is in the same state as that of the British. Spa nish Active has rather improved, closed at 18%, at present 19 t• s 4 , with coupons ; Portuguese 27 ; Three per Cents. 181 ; Brazilian, 74 ; Colombian, 26i to 1 ,4 ; Mexican, 24 ; Dutch Tvro.and a-Half per Cents. 53g. 'The Mauritius Price Current received to the 21st November, states the Exchange on London, 1 1 A per cent. premium. Freights to fag land, W. lss. per ton. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. tit,. _ gl 4 14 3 per Cent. Cons /2%% 34 per Cent......... —. ......... Ditto 1ted....... .......... N¢•p 34 per Cent ION% New 5 per Cent... — Sink LongAnnultiestoexpire . _ __ Intim StoeK... .... !Mtn Bonds South Sea Stock Old Ann uties New Oitto 3 rer Cent. Annuities, 1751 --- Exch. 8i115..£1,000 54 56 or". Ditto ..... M. 56 pin. Jan. 5, - 1860 1 5 14 5-111 (;et. 10, I-Ifi Jan. 5, r 364) Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 18.90 Jan. 5, - I)itta Small Ditto Commercial Ditto Advertised tnt• Bank Stock far Account India stock for Account Congols for Acconnt 91% K. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds 10 3 14 Ditto Account THIS DAY ♦T ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds -- Ditto Account ....... ....... —. Portuguege Eon 'g .— Brannan 11,mds Ditto Account Ditto Account Ditto New Bowls. T7ti Buenos Ayres ..iSonds Ditto Account . Ditto Account thtto, 3 r cent. lBl4 hill; an Bonds Ditto Account ....... Clitunbian Bonds Pruirjan Ronds ........... Rusdian Bonds, 18•22 1134 Ditto Account Ditto Account Ditto Meta11ic......... C)lumbian Ronda, 18•2.: 26% 7 Ditto Account ` , 6%7 t ,' 7 Do - u.h ,soilds ............. — Ditto Account ..... .......... — Spanish 80nd5..... Ditto Account .— Ditto Bonds.lB3t. .... Ditto Account l9 ___ _ le• •• ..."' t;reek Boneis French, 5 per .... 109 f. --c- Ditto Bonds, 1825 — , --...-- 4 per cent ...... .... —f. —e. Ditto Account — 5 per cent ....... ... —f. ---c• Mexican Bongs' 5 per cent —-- Exchange 2sf. 50e. Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account . Ditto, 5 per cent 102% 3 Neapolitan — Ditto Account .... ......... ..... --., PitlOES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share B•azllian Imperta, Mining Co, (Issued at 51. pm.) 20 20g Candonga Mining Company 7% 73i % Birmingham and Derby Railway Company 2O 12 111,x2', Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company l5 Bristol and Exeter Railway Company lO 8% Cheltenham and Great Western Railway City Railway 2 7s. Od. Commercial Blackwall Railway Company 2 5 n I %1,,, Edinburgh, Leith, and Newhaven Railway (1, eat Western Railway Company 145 b 5 Hull and Selby Railway Company lO a Brighton Railway Conkrany' London and Blackwall Railway - Ditto Scrip 3 694 hi Lcndon and Birmingham Railway Company 9O 165 6 London Grand Junction Railway 5 314 Manchester and Birmingham Railway 7 8% II Northern and Eastern Railway Company North Midland Railway Comlany 25 4') I'4 South Durham Railway Company 2% 14. York and North Mi nand Railway Company 12 12 Westminster and Greenwich liailway Company 2 1(1 1 COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. ; Amsterdam C.F. 12 5 Gibraltar 4B Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ° U. 12 5% Genoa 0 13' Antwerp... hamburg. A1t0na..... Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Palermo per oz. 117Ke Ditto ........... .......... 3 Ms. 25 95 Lisbon 53% 59V ii Marseilles. Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 153% Bahia 25 Ptterslitugh, ruble 3 Us. 10 Buenos Ayres -- FiNliit Vienna, effective 11 2M.10 12 Cork ll Trieste ditto lO 14 PRICE OF BULLION, PER Oi Madrid 34% Portugal Gold, coin ..CO I 0 Cadiz.... 35 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 0 Bilboa .... B 'melons' Saville 34 Silver, bars, standard 0 4 11Y6 HALF PAST 041 E O'CLOCK. The bad state of the weather, and the non-arrival of any of the Ame rican packets front New York, cause a great dulness in the City, as well as a stagnation in the operations of the Funds. Consols may be quoted at little better than in the early part of the 00 morning, When they were 92i ; at present, --1 % with little d oin g . Exchequer Bills, 54 56 ; Bank Stock, 206 ; India Bonds, 55 5 7 . In the Foreign Market Spanish Stock has improved to 191 in conge- quence of their coming i per tent. higher from Paris this morning ; In other Foreign Securities, scarce a bargain doing. Portuguese, 271 ; Three-per-Cents, 18t ; Brazilian, 74; Mexican, 29 ; Dutch Two-and a-lialf, 531. TIMER O' CL 0 CK. Coneols fir Se Acciotlnt. 92} f. COURT CIRCULAR. The Royal dinner party at the New Palace last evening in cluded Viscount Melbourne, the Right Hon. George S. BYng' and Sir George Anson. The band of the Grenadier Guards attended at the Pala" during dinner. Captain Manby, Mr. Farrcn, Mr. Nugent, and Mr. Sieve - Wright had interviews with Lord Glenelg yesterday at the Co lonial Office. Lord William Bentinck and Mr. Dennistoun had an inter view with Viscount Melbourne yesterday. Lord Hunting ton, Sir Robert Heron, and Mr. Henry Lytton Bulwer also had interviews with the Noble Viscount yesterday. A deputation on the subject of the Twopenny Post letter carriers, including Major Aglionby, Captain Polhill, Mr. O'Connell, Sir George Sinclair, and Mr. Wallace had an in terview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Downing street. The deputation was met by Colonel Maberloy, Mr. Labouchere, and Mr. Baring.. Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Irish Board for Lord Auckland, the Governor-General of India, and for the Officers commanding the Presidencies of Madras and Bombay. The Speaker's Levees for the present Session will be held on the 17th and 24th March next. To-morrow will be the anniversary of the daY r e which the Earl of Essex was beheaded, in 1601 and t 1 11, anniversary of the day on which Sir Christopher Wren die in 1723. Monday next it will be just twenty-three years since Bonaparte escaped from Elba. ST. MARYLEBONE BANK FOR SAVINGS. The Bth annual general meeting of this institution was he,l on Thursday the 22d of this month, at the office, No. Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square, the Rev. J. H. Spry, D. A . '" in the chair. It appeared from the several reports read to the meeting that the progress of this Bank continues to be of a very rapid description ; no less than 2,797 new deposits har ing been made in the last year. 9,947 deposit accounts re mained open on the 20th of November last, of which no less than 4,435 held balances averaging only 1/. Is. 10d. each ; upwards of 155,7001. was then invested with the Commis sioners for the Reduction of the National Debt. This amount has since risen to 164,3091., and is rapidly on the advance. The continued evidence this affords of the strong and grow ing disposition of the working classes to provide against the casualties of life will prove a source of gratification to all re flecting minds. Vice Admiral Sir Robert Waller Otway, Com mander-in-Chief at the Nore, has appointed Lieut. klenry Payne Gallwey to be his Flag lieutenant, vice Lieut. Teary" son D'Eyncourt. Sir James Graham, the newly-elected Member for Pembroke boroughs, arrived in Grosvenor-place last evening:• accompanied by his brother, Captain Graham, R. N., from Sir John Owen's scat, Orielton, near Pembroke, to take the o aths and his scat. Great expedition i s making , at Sheerness in fitti n g out of the Hastings 74, the late flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage, the late commander-in-chief in the Tagus; that vessel having been ordered to convey the Ear l and Countess of Durham, family and suite, to Quebec. The Hastings, commanded by Captain Lock, is expected to be ready for sea in five weeks. Mr. Fox Manic (during the exclusion of strangers on Thursday on account of the ballots) took the oaths and his seat for the Elgin district of Burghs. It is estimated that the sum required to build a new Royal Exchange, fire-proof, on the heat plan, would be about 160,000/. ROM—WORCESTER, FEB. W iS more business done in our market on Saturday last than for some time past, and prices may be quoted for fine samples about 23. per cwt. in advance. Fine samples were much in quired after. Weighed on Saturday, 119 pockets; during the week, 30 ; Prices, 58s. to 745. ; fine, 745. to 865. ; Year °46.. to 62. STEAM-BOAT ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning* about ten o'clock, an Ipswich vessel, a sloop, laden with a vain able cargo, was coming up with the tide, and, for the porn ° of bringing up, was hanging on to a warp, made fast to a tier of vessels nearly off the Custom- House, when the Diamond , 11 Gravesend steamer, also coming up at full speed, was put by by a barge, and ran into the v esse l, cuttin g a pi ec e out of 11 e1 bowsprit, and effecting other damage. Before the ship bat' well recovered from this shock the Naiad, a Woolwich steamers came up at full speed, and ran upon the vessel right in mid: ships with tremendous force, carrying away six stanchions a na the bulwarks. The steamers, after clearing the sloop, wl on, and it was for some time feared that the vessel which ha sustained so much damage would go down. The crew of a Thames police-galley went on board to offer their assistance, and ultimately the sloop was moored in a secure berth by her crew, some of whom narrowly escaped being killed when the steamers struck the vessel. Two other accidents, arising from collisions with steamers, have occurred this week. By the last accounts the public at Madrid were giving themselves up to all the gaities of the Carnival• though the weather was dreadful, and snow had fallen in abundance. LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM.—We understand that the subscription at the last meeting of the supporters of this institution amounted to nearly 2,0001. LADIES' SECOND-HAND GOLD GOLD NECK CHAIN, GOLD SEAL and KEY, are offered, in case complete, for Fourteen Guineas. The Watch is warranted to perform correctly, jewelled, and with gold dial. The Chain pi . 14 yard long; Seal and Key of the best description. As Second. hand W a t c h es su i ta bl e for t h e purpose are obtained, the are fitted with Key, Se a l, an d Ring, and also with Gold Neck Ch a i n , CO al to form set s a b ove d escr ib e d ; an d , consequent l y, a se t, an d some times sever a l se t s , are constant l y f or sa l e. T. COX SAVORY'S, Watchmaker, Jeweller, and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, London• (Sever Doors from Grarechurch-street.) London : Printed and Published by •AIURDO YOUNG,;f Na 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the count/ I \ l iddlesex.—Saturday, February 2.4, 1838. ■